a question to all the geeks, nerds and creative users out there.
I recently found and reactivated my BananaPi M1 (similar to RasPi). It has a ARM7 32bit architecture, 1 GB RAM, but 1 TB SSD and a 1 GB LAN port. Way back I used it as a NAS server, but then I switched to a much more powerful HP t630 thin client to do all the stuff and much much more.
The BananaPi is too good to be sold, but too slow and old to run what I tried up to now.
First try was to turn it into a little seafile server with this documentation, but I didn’t manage to get it to run.
Now I installed a fresh armbian with only docker to start from the beginning with no bloat.
But as I’m quite new to docker I thought I’d just ask you guys and girls what would you do with this box? Any ideas, links to cool docker images or may be a complete ISO for ARM7 32bit for an out of the box solution?
Hopefully this will yield the proper kernel and u-boot for the BananaPi A20.
That would be a base install then set it up the Archlinux way.
If this works, I would suggest maybe playing around with a video surveillance system.
This could make a very basic LAN file server, but you already have that covered.
Maybe Pi Hole? Probably the best use would be for tinkering around learning some aspect of Linux.
I know how you feel, I have two Odroid XU4 laying on a shelf with no useful purpose that isn’t already covered by something better.
it’s not the OS that I’m looking for - Armbian works well.
Yesterday I had an idea to try out paperless-ngx on docker, started installing all that containers and failed after half an hour. I then read that they dropped support for 32bit ARM last year August
I’m now trying to find out if I can use and older 32bit capable release of paperless-ngx in he container. Quite new to docker, but at least I’ll learn something
